LEGO Quest #2

Rocket Boy decided to choose definition 2.  of, pertaining to, or having tones of one color in addition to the ground hue: monochromatic pottery.

"This is Santa's Sled, which I built in one colour.  But the mini figure was just from my collection."

Again Would love to see photos of any others creations, please email me any photos at homeschoolingaotearoa@gmail.com and I'll add them to this post. 

Next challenge... #3 Vessel

A vessel could mean many things so here's the Dictionary.com definitions. 

ves·sel  [ves-uhl] 

noun

1.a craft for traveling on water, now usually one larger than an ordinary rowboat; a ship or boat.

2.an airship.

3.a hollow or concave utensil, as a cup, bowl, pitcher, or vase, used for holding liquids or other contents.

4.Anatomy, Zoology . a tube or duct, as an artery or vein, containing or conveying blood or some other body fluid.

5.Botany . a duct formed in the xylem, composed of connected cells that have lost their intervening partitions, that conducts water and mineral nutrients.

LEGO Quest #1

Here's Rocket Boy's car, 

This is my first LEGO car from Legends of Chima, Lenox from Chima is driving. You lift the cockpit up to launch in and out.  There is a level on the back you use to launch him in and out. 

Would love to see photos of any others creations, please email me any photos at homeschoolingaotearoa@gmail.com and I'll add them to this post. 

Next challenge... #2 Monochromatic

This is one of the new words that Rocket Boy had to learn before he could start creating. 

Here's what Dictionary.com says.... 

mon·o·chro·mat·ic  [mon-uh-kroh-mat-ik, -oh-kruh-]  

adjective

1.  of or having one color.

2.  of, pertaining to, or having tones of one color in addition to the ground hue: monochromatic pottery.

3.  Optics. pertaining to light of one color or to radiation of a single wavelength or narrow range of wavelengths.

4.  Ophthalmology . of or pertaining to monochromatism.

LEGO Quest

What is LEGO Quest??


A few weeks ago I was browsing the web as you do am I came across this LEGO Quest website, which lists 52 LEGO building challenges or quests for your LEGO mad child to complete.  These were completed over 3 years, but I'm sure we could do them in just 1.

As Rocket Boy is totally addicted to LEGO I decided to set him the first challenge, at first he was keen but before he finished his creation he had ran out of steam and it sat unfinished for almost 2 weeks.  Then this week all of a sudden he bought me his finished creation to photograph and asked for his next challenge.

Before the day was over he had managed to complete the first 6 challenges, and also learnt 2 new words.

I've decided I'm going to post about his creations here.  At first I thought I would only do one a week, but I know Rocket Boy will not stay interested as this would be to slow for him, so I'm hoping we'll complete 2-3 each week.  I hope that others will be keen to join us in completing this challenge and email me your pictures to share here or even blog about it yourself and share a link to your blog.

Challenge #1 - Create a car.